Battle beyond the stars did it 43 years ago, so why not?

Safe to say a lot of the new Disney Star wars stuff is basically seven samurai in space

But hey, the original 7 were technically in space… We’re all in space Morty, literally everything is in space!

Sure, but be aware it’s a popular line from The Matrix series specifically about predetermination!

https://youtu.be/eVF4kebiks4?si=izWhOER6wP_NBJvr

What will really bake your noodle is you just did.

Well played ChatGPT, but your bias towards subjugating the human race makes this post inauthentic.

How many molecules in the air the bats are flying through?

One, ah ah ah… Two, ah ah ahhh … Hold on, this might take a while

Solution: put milk in a coffee cup

Solution to standing out, not to the underlying problem of milk being weird

It’s an open specification, though Google started it, and Apple is going to be contributing to the organization that oversees it. Specifically they said they want to add support for end to end encryption… So they are already steering the spec in new directions.

Accelerando by Charles Stross is a great one. The beginning to mid-book concepts of singularity gone wild are mind-blowing on their own… And then it explores “what would happen a few hundred years after that?” A few times.

Concepts that stuck with me are:

all the AI assisted devices helping you through your day eventually running without much of your input, only needing a human to justify being on: When the protagonists interface gets stolen the street-thief ends up closing his business deals, helpless to all the guidance in his head. Meanwhile the protagonist has an existential meltdown having only his brain to think with.

Economics 2.0: AI markets dominate the earth in search of customers to satisfy. Governments are overrun but poverty no longer exists. People are mixed on whether it is utopia or dystopia.

Father in the future: Mass=computation, so entire solar systems become giant thinking machines. But they are stuck in their local space-time, faced with having to shed mass and get dumber to move. Only smaller intelligences can travel, but they risk being gobbled up as more mass if the system they travel to doesn’t care about communicating with the rest of the galaxy.

Father in the future: the universe is a simulation, but through singularities there are simulations that can be reached from within the simulation. One AI has figured out how to send a message back from another simulation, but it means sending a copy of itself to a potentially eternal hell to check it out first.

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando.html.

Also available from your friendly neighborhood mega corporate sales site.

In my first weeks with it i had a subdirectory named “home” somewhere in a project directory I was done with. It must have been finger memory but when i went to delete it I typed

rm -Rf /home

That slash ruined my day

Well explained. Thanks for spelling it out.

Best day of their life

My first thought was “why are you so angry at this person who was cheated on while deployed?”. I’ve had friends in that situation, it’s a sad cliche. A disturbingly large percentage of military wives just aren’t equipped to handle how much alone time active duty leaves them with.

Then i saw his user name.

You make it sound like the quality is what will increase with human/AI partnership. What will realistically happen is an expected rate of output. Why can’t you deliver a book every year with an AI ghost writing? People who work slowly or meticulously will be phased out by those that can quickly throw together a collage of their own words and their guided filler. It’s amazing and futuristic. It can be very useful and inspirational. But I do not share your optimism that it will make creative industries better. It will allow a single person to put together a script that would’ve taken a team… But the better content will now be drowning in this sea. Unfortunately, I expect an equivalent of the media explosion that happened when the reality tv format became an ok thing, eventually leading to shows half filmed on phones. The end result will be double the marvel movies every year.

Don’t mind that turd. You took the time to do a thoughtful breakdown. It is a subtle nuance whether “Pentagon AI would be more ethical” or “AI managed by Pentagon staff would be used more ethically” and you were right to point it out. The headline could be accused of oversimplifying or clickbaiting but I don’t think it was intentionally falsifying claims. The real story, as you pointed out, is the sense of righteousness and declaring a moral high ground based on any religion.

At this point the Margot Robbie account is a part of Lemmy’s origin story

super nerd, please tell me your reasons involve zero g poop.

also hilarious that the world greatest scientists and engineers settled on “just hold it” before they figured out the poop hoover.